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CNET News: Game on for Apple's newest iPad

2012-03-07
we've asked a few developers just to spend a week and take a look at the new iPad and show us what they can do with it with all that amazing graphics horsepower so we're going to bring up three demos to show you some really amazing stuff the first is from Namco Namco is a great developer of a lot of titles on the iphone and ipad titles of everything from pac-man to sky gamblers today we're thrilled to show you a first glimpse of our new flights in game sky gamblers air supremacy running on the new iPad great gaming experiences are about immersion being able to really lose yourself in the game and the new iPad helps us achieve this in two key ways first the extra graphics performance lets us increase the level of detail of everything in the game and second the astonishing resolution of the new display means absolutely none of this detail goes to waste just look at the heat haze coming off of the engines here look at the scale of this city look at the detail in its buildings and check this out sky gamblers air supremacy delivers console-quality single and multiplayer experiences an experience that not even this giant screen here could actually show you the only place to truly experience the intensity of action that richness of detail is on the new iPad itself sky gamblers air supremacy launches exclusively on iOS later this month thank you today I'm excited to show you something new with the help of Lawrence yang I want to introduce sketchbook ink sketch book ink is a new drawing app that focuses on line art so it's totally complimentary with sketchbook pro in fact Lawrence actually started this piece in sketchbook pro and is using the painting created as a background you'll notice right away that we take a lot of design cues from sketchbook pro we have two customizable panels on the sides one for ink styles the other four color swatches it's resolution independent so you can see no matter how far you zoom all the strokes stay crisp and smooth professional and everyday artists are going to love this device and it's going to inspire them to create beautiful pieces of artwork just like what Lawrence has been creating for you live today which by the way dude that's pretty amazing for 90 seconds autodesk sketchbook ink will be available this April exclusively on iOS thank you very much so just like Apple has raised the bar today for mobile computing epics iOS exclusive franchise infinity blade has been raising the bar for mobile gaming and we're really excited to that with the new iPad so today I'm going to introduce epics rod fergusson and the latest chapter in the Infinity Blade saga dungeons so in dungeons you are the apprentice to the master of the forge and you're on a quest to craft the ultimate weapon the Infinity Blade so you guys are in for a visual feast of unprecedented detail today I mean seriously these leaves here are blocking the light from the Sun right so let's dive in to this abandoned mine and as soon as we go in you're going to notice that your eyes pupils are adjusting to the darkness cool greys are getting give way to warm orange tones from the lava that's a technique called tone mapping that are cinematographers use to dynamically adjust brightness and color palettes for better immersion of course just like all our products this is running real-time brought if you want to zoom in and show them the incredible detail we're getting here yeah well that's enough sightseeing Mike if we're going to crap the Infinity Blade I need the fire silk from the Spider Queen Oh abandoned huh a few quick swipes but now with the touch interface I just hold and I can connect my enemies for a chain attack so infinity blade onions will bring a robust crafting system dynamic dungeon crawling all to the world of infinity blade and it's only going to look like this and play like this on the new iPad Infinity Blade 2 is available right now on the App Store and dungeons will be coming soon thanks everybody for playing thanks a lot
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